St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-14
FRANKIE IN hER GARDEN.
Home Life at Oak vieW..The Presi
DENTS New Cow and Horse.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The president
and Mrs. Cleveland have moved out to the
farm for good" as they say in the rural
regions. 1t is doubtful if they sleep under
the roof of the White house again until
late next autumn. The weather win now
permit his excellency to drive in and out
every day. and it will not be long before he
can house the close carriage and substitute
the open barouche. He is said to have a
great distaste for the ''shut-up" vehicle.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely comes to town,
and is busy every day getting her garden,
fower-beds and vines in spring shape. Her
friends, knowing that she and her husband
rest, rarely intrude. Many resident people
and quite number of visitors drive by the
pretty place to take look at the placid
scene. Occasionally they get glimpse of
the folks on the piazza or walking about
the grounds. If they would come early
enough in the morning or late enough in
the evening they might see the president
sitting in big chair on the verandah, with
his feet roosting high and fine cigar in
his mouth.
The talk about his health stirred him up
a bit, and he walks over his premises
great deal and swings himself about gener-
ally. The talk alarmed his wife more than
it did him, and she has endeavored to get
him to take all sorts of exercise. The eff
fort to have him mount saddle horse has
failed so far, and is not likely to succeed in
the future. He is too large and too short
legged to do much in that line, and as he
would be followed and stared at and COM
mented upon he is not inclined to attempt
the experiment. With less work and close
confinement at the White house and plenty
of pedestrianism at home he will get on
handsomely and keep in condition to give
the Republicans no little anxiety. He will
not have congress to worry with through
the warm months, as he did last year, and
the appointments can be figured on at the
farm.
He now starts out to Oak View at 4:30,
but later along he might get off an hour
about 10 o'clock. He takes his lunch at
o'clock, which is still served by the White
house steward, with an extra now and then
from the plantation.
Mrs. Folsom sees to the business of Oak
View and the president has few of the cares
of rural estate. A cow was recently added
to the stock of the place. She was bought
in the neighborhOod and cannot claim any
fancy breeding OF especially pretty points.
She is a good mixer, however, and gets in
her work for the nation in that way. Two
horses, one for the pillow and one for the
buggy, have been added. There is but
one man servant ON the premises and two
women servants, including Mrs, Cleyeland's
maid.
Most of the marketing is done in George
town, which is near by. Everything works
smoothly and simply, and it is happy
household, about seven or eight persons all
told. Hawkins, the old reliable presi-
dental Jehu, continues to do the driving
when the chief magistrate is abroad.
cousin Benz Folsom sent over pair Of
razOrs to Col. Lamont from Sheffield few
days since that were beauties, and splendid
in their execution. The colonel is much
inclined to shave at home since the arrival
of the admirable weapons. ,rhe president
has, no doubt, received pair from the
same direction by this time.